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A tip for rare-coin robbers: Spending your loot at face value for a pizza tends to draw a little attention. That's what police say happened when Dakoda Garren, 19, threw down an old Liberty quarter worth up to $18,500 for a purchase at Rocky's Pizza in Battle Ground, Washington. Police say a tipster called them, seeking the $1,000 reward that was offered after a theft of rare coins in nearby Woodland, reports The Columbian.

A Woodland woman says her pricey collection—some of it about 200 years old—vanished from her garage in May after she hired Garren and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Massman, to do work around the house. Now more coins from the collection have turned up at a movie theater where people fitting Garren and Massman's descriptions reportedly spent them. Garren is currently in jail on first-degree theft charges, but officials refused to hold Massman because she's 9 months pregnant.

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williambaranowski

Sep 22, 2012 6:47 PM CDT

"...released her...9 months pregnant..." Since she was, also, so full of pizza and the precinct cleaning staff had been cut back, it made more sense, just to put her back on the street.